A new study from MarketingProfs indicates that micro-blogging social network Twitter may not be about social networking at all. It’s about information. Researchers have studied the Twitter phenomena and have determined that most Twitter users are simply interested in getting more information and pertinent information in a timely manner…
Study: Twitter is a non-social social network – Social Marketing – BizReport.
I am the world’s biggest coward. I don’t do cold calling. Yep, I’m afraid to ask total strangers to join my opportunity. I don’t send out opportunity offers to my social networks friends list. I know many people do, but I don’t like to bother people. Call me an aggressive non-aggressive. I make it a personal rule never to sponsor anyone until they tell me that they want to join me in my opportunity.
It’s true, they have to ask me to join before I ever call them and talk to them for the first time. 10 to 20 people per month currently do just that. Of those that ask, I sponsor about 60% of them.
The other thing you should know is I don’t participate in any free or one pay or low premium opportunities. It costs $180 to join me then about $140 per month. I tell you this because I want to impress upon you that you don’t have to beg people to join you. In fact, it simply doesn’t work.
What do I do. Well, I am an online social animal. I write blogs, I post in others blogs, I participate in forums, I send out greetings in my social networks two to three times each day. I have a Monday morning radio show, I do a Wednesday evening webinar, I write articles, and I give tons of free advice out.
Doing all this creates a steady stream of traffic to my website (greg-arnold.com) which is set up in four pages, each a squeeze page or landing page. This creates a steady stream of highly targeted leads. Some of which are ready to ask me to sponsor them. I send all my leads an invitation each week to come to my webinar.
All of this creates 6 to 12 new sponsorships each month. It all takes a discipline to be consistent everyday, but it is worth it. I can teach anyone to do it, but I have already given you a pretty good outline right here in this blog. Making money doesn’t have to be difficult. Most people make it a lot harder then it really is.
BTW, I have sponsored 3 terrific people from Successville in the last week, as well as 1 from my blog, 3 from Facebook, 1 from Amazon books and 2 from MySpace. All in the last week. Ok it’s been a little better than normal. But I still can’t stress enough, anyone can do it.
Best of success to you,
Greg
About six weeks ago I put a simple system into place that anyone could do. Since Friday I have sponsored 9 people. If you would like to know more contact me, I’m having fun and making money. You could to, I’ll happy to show you how!
Richard Brooke asks you in his latest blog post: “Take a moment to imagine where our society would be, if we (people and businesses) allowed ourselves to believe we have no need for improvement. If we settled for “good enough,” instead of reaching for excellence. If in the afterglow of great success, we adopted an attitude of “We’ve arrived!” and neglected to ask, “How can we improve and reach the next level?””
Worthwhile reading from one of my favorite trainers!
Over 30 Years in the business and I find myself making my first serious run at it in a long time. When you’ve been around a long time you don’t really have to work that hard to make money, so you might get lazy. I did. I woke up one morning and realized that I’m over 50. An old guy, a MLM Dinosaur. I also decided I haven’t done everything I’ve wanted to and it was time to reawaken the giant within. Here are a few things I did in starting over. Maybe they’ll help you too.
First I went looking for a company that I could call home for the next several years, hopefully for the rest of my life. No, I won’t mention names. This isn’t a recruiting pitch. Unless you want to follow this link. The things I went looking for may not be what you would look for, but you should. I wanted to find a company that was over its basement stage and was already stable yet hadn’t exploded yet. In other words doing about a half-million a month or so and had a good quality product that people wanted and would use month after month. I wanted to market nutritionals also. That is just a preference for those of you who like services or appliances. Those things are fine, just not my preference.
The reason for the pre-explosive state is frankly, I wanted to be the guy who caused the company to explode. If you build your business to the point where you touch off your company’s explosion then something interesting happens. If you have 50% of the company in your downline at the time of the explosion then you will have 50% of the company in your downline when the dust settles. I figure you take a half-million a month company to about 5 million a month over a 12 to 24 month period and you get to light the match. I like lighting matches.
Once I found a company that I believed fit the mold the next thing I was looking for was; I wanted to see what was going on with the ownership and management internally. Being a former company owner I might look for a few things you wouldn’t. Here they are: I want to see what their percentage of payout is. You might too, but I suspect you are looking for a fairly high percentage while I am looking for just the opposite. I’d like to see a number somewhere between 42% and 46%. If it is closer to the higher percentage I’d like to see that percentage offset with a lower cost of goods sold. Say around 12% to 15%. The reason for this is that I want to know that the owner is keeping his responsibility to me by keeping his company in good financial shape. Product based companies that payout in the 50’s or 60’s percent to the field don’t stay around long term.
Another thing I look for is the ego factor. Most owners tend to micro-manage their companies. It is important for them to do so in the initial stages of their growth. A $25,000 mistake in the early stages will cost them their business. So in an owner’s mind, if someone is going to make that kind of mistake, it is going to be him. However, when a company hits the half-million dollars a month range, I want to see that owner beginning to delegate internal operations to an expert. I want to see him spending big bux on a guy who has administratively already taken a company from 10 million a year to 200 million a year. Owners are supposed to be the keepers of the vision, not department managers. This is a tough transition for an overwhelming number of owners. Again, it is their responsibility to me and to you to make that transition.
I also want to see a quality product but more important, I want to see an efficient supply line. I want to have reasonable confidence that when we pop this baby open, we won’t run into a ton of back order problems. Additionally, the owner needs to have a good reputation, not only with MLM distributors but with his suppliers too. Yes I ask questions of the people he buys his products through. It isn’t always easy to get this kind of information, but it is your life so why not make the effort. Here are the things I don’t care about; I don’t care if I like the owner or he likes me. I don’t care if the pay plan is a binary or unilevel or breakaway or hybrid combining the three together. All pay plans have a built in guarantee: If you work you get paid, if you don’t you won’t.
Are you following these ten common sense things as you are building your business online. Probably not. Unfortunately, common sense isn’t really common. Especially in the world of Internet marketing.
My best advice is follow these simple rules, remind yourself of them from time to time and work on getting better at them all the time.
The Secret to Internet Marketing? Learn the Ten Skills You Must Have | NotWeb Network.
Another gem I ran accross:
Get Content Network To perform – Expert SEM Wisdom | SEM Wisdom.
More amazing stuff from Doug Firebaugh. Worth the read, great insights here.
MLM Training- The 5 Things We Can Learn From Barack Obama For Home Business Success | Political talk.
It’s not often that you read a blog and become an instant fan, but I like this guy. Or at least I like what and how he writes. Thought I’d share him with you: